DuraSpace Membership Newsletter
August 18, 2016
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
ADD tk
This fall I'm looking forward to seeing many of you at upcoming events and meetings.
Warm regards,
Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO
2016 Membership update
PLEASE VERIFY VAL
We appreciate everyone's support. Many thanks to our members who have already renewed their membership for 2016, and to those who have joined DuraSpace for the first time as new members. Members have so far contributed $986,250; 119 members joining DuraSpace in the vital effort to provide technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising, community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and strategic partnerships and administration to the DSpace, Fedora and VIVO projects. Here's where we are towards meeting budget amounts:
Total: $986,250; 119 members; 75% of budget
- DSpace: $189,500; XX% of budget
- Fedora: $494,750; XX% of budget
- VIVO: $229,500; XX% of budget
- General: $72,500; 91% of budget
PROJECTS
FEDORA
NYC Camp-out
Don't forget to register for Fedora Camp in NYC, hosted by Columbia University Libraries at Columbia University's Butler Library, New York City November 28-30, 2016. More information about the instructors and a full training schedule are available here: Register today and join us in New York!
Fedora 4.6.0 available
The August 31, 2016 release of Fedora 4.6.0 release furthers several major objectives:
- Tighten the definition of the RESTful application programming interface (API)
- Refining the messaging service
- Use performance test fixtures to examine the effects of different backends
- Improve durability by encouraging the use of MySQL and PostgreSQL backends
- Deprecation of legacy Transform service
- Fix bugs
This release will be the last release built against a version of Modeshape that uses Infinispan for data storage. Release notes and downloads are available on the wiki.
Reusing Fedora resources
The community has been working on import and export Fedora tooling to enhance reuse of Fedora resources in other contexts. The result of this effort will mean that users can export to a separate preservation system, as well as migrate resources across Fedora installations, such as from a LevelDB backend to PostgreSQL. Half of the problem is solved with the existing GET/POST interactions for RDF and non-RDF resources provided by the Linked Data Platform API. The other half will addressed by tooling external to Fedora.
How far does Fedora scale?
If you are interested in testing to determine the current upper-limits of Fedora performance and scalability, please join the discussion on the fedora-community mailing list and attend the next meeting on September 26.
With thanks
Thank you Princeton University for upgrading their annual membership from Bronze to Platinum in support of Fedora this year. For more information on membership and benefits please see the DuraSpace website.
DSPACE
ADD release update
VIVO
MORE tk
The VIVO community participated in a remarkable conference last month in Denver. If you missed the VIVO conference, catch the keynotes on YouTube!
SERVICES
New service level announcement here
DuraSpace Web Services include ArchivesDirect, DSpaceDirect, and DuraCloud. Learn more about any of the hosted services DuraSpace offers, please visit their web sites or contact info@duracloud.org.
